
Date of issue: 31.05.1995
Song language: English
Quiet Desperation |
You’re sitting on a milk mornin' noon and night |
Fantisizin' the American dream |
You’re lookin' pretty good and you’ve got yourself conviced |
That the nightmare isn’t a s bad as it seems |
You try your best to hide yourself beneath your turned up collar |
And a plastic bag is all you’ve got to show |
And your books inside your shopping cart |
Is probably the best education you’re ever gonna know (Hmm) |
The guy in the Mercedes is just hard on with the dollar |
Better grab it 'cause the signal’s turnin' green |
And while you’re at it put the jug behind the picket fence |
'Cause the copper’s driving past you lookin' mean |
Institution, contribution, restitution, destitution |
Doesn’t mean a thing to you now |
You’re the freeway feature |
For your audience are driving by So maybe you should stand and take a bow |
Your living in desperation |
And you never have felt complete |
You live in anticipation |
Of another day on the street, sing with me |
(Scatting by Scatman John) |
You’re sitting in the same spot |
You want to go home |
But there ain’t no home but home on the range |
You’ve forgotten what you look like and it looks like you’ve forgotten |
That the look inside your eye is very strange |
Ain’t nothing left to hide |
You’re stripped of all your pride and all you feel inside |
Is a hole a mile wide |
You’re the freedom desperado |
And the perfect living model |
Of a land that hasn’t any good excuse |
Your living in desperation |
And you never have felt complete |
You live in anticipation |
Of another day on the street, sing with me |
(Scatting by Scatman John) |
Sittin' on your milkcrate, blanket wrapped around you |
I see you sitting day after day |
I really like to talk but I know if I approached you |
You’d probably get up and walk away |
You’re wishin' that your home of the American dream |
Wasn’t only smoke and exhaust |
I love you desperado and all I gotta say |
You let me know how much I really lost |
Your living in desperation |
And you never have felt complete |
You live in anticipation |
Of another day on the street, sing with me |
(Scatting by Scatman John) |
Your living in desperation |
And you never have felt complete |
You live in anticipation |
Of another day on the street, sing with me |
(Scatting by Scatman John) |
(Fade out |
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